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Michelle Dorrance (born September 12, 1979) is an American tap dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and director. [1] Awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grant", she is the Founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance.
The Joyce is a 501(c)3 charitable organization whose mission is “To serve and support the art of dance and choreography, to promote the richness and variety of the art form in its fullest expression, and to advance the public interest in, and appreciation of, dance and the allied arts of music, design, and theater.” [12]
In December 2017, she was one of a quartet of female dancers in Michelle Dorrance's Until the Real Thing Comes Along (a letter to ourselves), which debuted at New York's Joyce Theater. New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas called Dorrance's collaborators—Sullivan, Jillian Meyers, and Josette Wiggan-Freund—"three singular and rhythmically ...
“A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite. Enjoy!” Dr Biden wrote on X.
The newly named Joyce SoHo housed offices, a rehearsal studio on the third floor, and a 74-seat theater on the first. [3] [11] [12] The theater opened on October 23, 1996, with a $183,400 operating budget for its first year. [3] [12] In 2012, the Joyce received, and accepted, an unsolicited $27.25 million offer for 155 Mercer from Thor Equities.
This is a list of theaters designated for the express purpose of presenting and producing dance performances. Dance venues such as these often have particular attributes including sprung floors and steeply raked seating areas. In addition, these spaces commonly convert into rehearsal spaces or dance studios equipped with mirrors.
The theater showed films from its opening in 1942 until 1978. Its longtime manager, Ben Barenholtz , invented midnight movie programming for the theater. Following a full renovation, the building reopened in 1982 as a 472-seat dance theater operated by the Joyce Theatre Foundation .
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